The feminine aspect of the psyche senses, feels, discerns, receives, and relates to the container of safety and belonging. This is the realm of sexuality and all other forms of intimacy and vulnerability: the “yin” principle of feelings, needs, desires, and analysis of what is.

The masculine aspect of the psyche asserts, directs, claims, protects, judges, and organizes territory. This is the realm of leadership and social organization, while sexuality is part of the contents of the territory. The masculine is the “yang” principle of goals, judging, leading, organizing, and taking action to correct.

For a consciousness to function, both principles must exist, but in a polarized way such that one moves in relation to the other. The feminine is the stable, receptive point, while the masculine moves and changes.

At any given moment, one of these modes is dominant, though in temporal-lobe constellation the psyche may swing rapidly from one hormone status to the other.

An individual’s default (or “normal”) hormone status corresponds to their biological sex, except under two conditions:

1. sex-hormone levels are altered due to physical or biochemical influences (e.g. spaying/neutering, hormone replacement therapy, or special biological programs that involve the gonads, adrenals, or other sex-hormone organs; or
2. the individual has an active conflict in one of their temporal lobe.

Thus, while estrogen levels are associated with feminine hormone status and testosterone levels are associated with masculine hormone status, it is the relative ratio of testosterone that determines hormone status in any given moment:

• An increase in testosterone relative to estrogen produces masculinization of females and increased aggression of males (“mania”).
  This can be because of the influence of testosterone-containing substances on the brain, or because of a relative reduction in estrogen due to mechanical or chemical influences on estrogen-producing organs or because of conflict activity in the left temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
• A decrease in testosterone relative to estrogen produces emasculation of males and increased passivity of females (“depression”).
  This can be because of the influence of estrogen-containing substances on the brain, or because of a relative reduction in testosterone due to mechanical or chemical influences on testosterone-producing organs or because of conflict activity in the right temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

A female is in feminine hormone status:

1. until she experiences a temporal lobe conflict (a conflict about belonging in or relating to the territory or social container, most profound as a sexual conflict) in the left temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex
2. or unless pregnancy, nursing, menopause, surgical/chemical castration, hormone therapy, or another endocrine-altering condition diminishes estrogen and creates a relative dominance of testosterone.

A male is in masculine hormone status:

1. until he experiences a temporal lobe conflict (a conflict about claiming or protecting territory, most profound as territorial loss or loss of access to sex) in the right temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex
2. or unless he is in “andropause” (age 70+) or has a chemical or biological reason for producing less testosterone relative to estrogen (for example, due to castration or endocrine-disrupting substances).

An individual does not become more or less feminine in essence; the feminine remains the receptive field. What changes is the relative strength, distortion, withdrawal, or dominance of masculine charge. 

(Consider the difference between an egg and a sperm: the egg remains receptive while the sperm or pollen prolifically seeks out the egg. Similarly, the feminine principle in the psyche remains stable, while the masculine principle is either increased or decreased relative to estrogen)

Note: hormone status affects femininity and masculinity at the cerebral cortex level. While this has profound effects on certain perceptions and reactions to the environment and social organization (also at the cerebral cortex level), and while it can have indirect but significant effects on self-worth and self-devaluation (at the cerebral medulla level), hormone status does not have any influence on laterality.

Your neurological dominance (laterality) is the same throughout your entire life.

Therefore, whether your temporal lobe conflict relates to a mother/child or to a partner has no influence on your hormone status.